Quotes About Learning

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, he [Einstein] said.

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Without knowledge you cannot choose wisely. And without wise choice, there is no freedom.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But, though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

You can't beat a good education!

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

In gewisser Weise sind auch wir Bücherjäger", sagte Gofid. "Obwohl wir uns natürlich nicht der barbarischen Methoden dieser professionellen Mörder bedienen. Wir suchen aus Liebe, nicht aus Gier. Wir suchen mit Herz und Verstand, nicht mit Axt und Schwert. Wir suchen, um zu lernen, und nicht, um uns zu bereichern. Und wir suchen besser! Wir finden die wertvolleren Bücher.

Die Bibliotie ist die größtmögliche Form der Ignoranz gegenüber Büchern. Biblioten lesen nicht nur grundsätzlich keine Bücher, sondern leugnen sogar schlankweg ihre Existenz!

Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur - aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!

Lesen ist eine intelligente Methode, sich selber das Denken zu ersparen.

Knowledge is night!

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192)

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

This escapade taught me a lesson," Nimitz later recalled, "to look with lenient and tolerant eye on first offenders when in later years they appeared before me as a Commanding Officer holding Mast."8

Una ignorancia lúcida es la que te permite aprender de otros sin arrogancia, reconocer tus límites sin complejos y sin sentirte incompleto por ello.

Ten el valor de equivocarte. HEGEL